I always thought, somehow, that living on the margins of society increases the humanity of people. It’s something that you find in many songs, It Comes to my mind De André with his Genoa full of whores, drunks and dispossessed that are all terribly romantic, although I believe that few people (especially these days) would like to live there.
Speaking of Genoa, it gave me a similar effect “The mouth of the wolf”, a film by the young Italian director Pietro Marcello, who I saw yesterday at the Nuovo Olimpia.
There are all this things: the romance of the love at the extreme margins of society, the dirty but lyrical city, dreams, lifes went wrong then fixed someways. And there is the industry, the workers as a class, the harbor, launching of ships, the myth of the Ansaldo and the Italsider. Men living in caves, as a return to pre-modern.
All represented with great pictures, the “private” of two people who met each other in the tragedy of the prison and manage to made it the best time of their lives, and the “public” one of a city as an idea, a class, a way of life.
And the music underscores everything, From the industries to the alleys, from the shooting to the kisses, with the highest point in the bar scene (unfortunately unavailable on the Internet), accompanied by the beautiful Gainsbourg’s song below.
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